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The dais during plenary The second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP2) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury met on Thursday, 22 November 2018. Delegates heard reports from contact groups in the morning, and adopted the rules of procedure for the Implementation and Compliance Committee in a brief plenary. They then met in contact groups throughout the day to consider: technical issues, including contaminated sites, interim storage, and harmonized customs codes; effectiveness evaluation; institutional issues pertaining to Secretariat arrangements; and budget and programme of work. A Friends of the President group on other outstanding issues also met during the day.In an evening plenary, the COP elected officers to the COP3 Bureau, and heard reports from contact groups.For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from COP2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Sean Wu For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page View of the plenary session Silvija Kalniņš, Latvia Nina Cromnier, Sweden Anahit Aleksandryan, Armenia Adly Manseri and Donatienne Monfort, Belgium Alejandra Acosta, Ana Corallo, and María Florencia Grimalt, Argentina Dhekra Charbi and Youssef Zidi, Tunisia Havanaby Mahezanony and Hanitriniaina Liliane Randrianomenjanahary, Madagascar Yingxian Xia, China, consulting with delegates from Nigeria, Mali and Gabon Seref Yilmaz, Mahmut Osmanbasoglu, and Bursev Dogan Artukoglu, Turkey Fidelice Mafumiko, Tanzania Marc Chardonnens, President, COP2, speaking with Franz Perrez and Felix Wertli, Switzerland Delegates during plenary Fredrick Mupoti Sikabongo, Namibia Margret Kaemba, Zambia Mohammed Khashashneh, Jordan, elected to the COP3 Bureau Contact Group on Technical Issues View of the contact group Karissa Kovner, US Diego Henrique Costa Pereira, Brazil The dais during the contact group Contact Group on Effectiveness Evaluation Contact Group Co-Chairs Karissa Kovner, US, and Kateřina Šebková, Czech Republic Obed Meringo Baloyi, South Africa, and John Mumbo, Kenya Christopher Allen, the EU View of the contact group Contact Group on Budget Claudia ten Have, Minamata Convention Secretariat Co-Chair Reginald Hernaus, the Netherlands The dias during the contact group Elisabeth Hosner, the EU Hutta Emig, Germany, and Aneta Willems, the EU Heidar Ali Balouji, Iran Claire Gouvary, France Contact Group on Institutional Issues Room view during the contact group Andrew Clark, US Gwen Goodier, Canada Around the Venue  

COP 14 participants from civil society and indigenous and local communities paid tribute to environmental defenders who were killed since 2017 On Wednesday, Working Group I addressed several items, including: enhancing integration under the Convention and its Protocols with respect to access and benefit-sharing (ABS); compliance under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; cooperation with other organizations under the Convention and its Protocols; review of effectiveness of processes under the Convention and its Protocols; review of progress in the implementation of the Strategic Plan; assessment and review under the Nagoya Protocol; and resource mobilization under the Convention. Working Group II considered: marine and coastal biodiversity; invasive alien species; liability and redress under the Convention; health and biodiversity under the Convention; and unintentional transboundary movements of living modified organisms under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. Contact groups on digital sequence information, synthetic biology, and the process for the post-2020 framework met throughout the day.For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily reports, daily web coverage, and a summary and analysis from the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page Clare Hamilton, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Neil Pratt, CBD Secretariat Jyoti Mathur-Filipp, CBD Secretariat Hayo Haanstra (the Netherlands), Chair of Working Group I Prudence Tangham Galega, Cameroon Somaly Chan, Cambodia L-R: Aldo Claure and Teresa Perez, Bolivia Teona Karchava, Georgia Sri Ratnaningsih, Indonesia Jerome Smith, Jamaica Marco Rebelo, Portugal Coumba Toure Kane, ISAAA Soseala Tinilau, Tuvalu Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz, El Salvador Arun Kumar Mehta, India L-R: Anne Theo Seinen and Tone Smith Spash, EU L-R: Clare Hamilton, Chair of the Compliance Committee of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, with Christelle Van Wessenbeeck, Ines Verleye, and Kelly Hertweg, Belgium Clarissa Nina (Brazil), Chair of Working Group II Cristina Romanelli, CBD Secretariat Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat L-R: Carlos Alberto Cueto Carrión, Peru; Georgina Catacora Vargas, Bolivia; and Edison Mayorga, Venezuela Delegates in informal consultations Georgina Catacora Vargas, Bolivia Daniela Diz, WWF and TNC Hesiquio Benitez Diaz, Mexico Shirin Karryeva, Turkmenistan Delegates in informal consultation on unintentional transboundary movements of living modified organisms Lena Chan, Singapore Anne Gabrielle Wüst Saucy, Switzerland Adam van Opzeeland, New Zealand Marie Haraldstad, Norway Ricarda Steinbrecher, Federation of German Scientists Volodymyr Domashlinets, Ukraine José Luis Echeverría Tello, Guatemala L-R: Mostafa Madbouhi and Larbi Sbai, Morocco L-R: Mohamed Ali Ben Temessek, Tunisia, with Nabil Hamada, Sahara and Sahel Observatory Participants from the Indigenous Women's Network on Biodiversity Delegates from Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay and Dominican Republic Celebration of the entry into force of the Supplementary Protocol on liability and redress to the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety  

Indigenous photo exhibit at COP 14 On Tuesday, Working Group I discussed a series of items on information sharing, national reporting, and assessment and review, under the Convention and its Protocols, including: •   knowledge management and communication under the Convention; •   operations and activities of the Biosafety Clearing-House; •   access and benefit-sharing (ABS) Clearing-House and information sharing under the Nagoya Protocol; •   mechanisms for national reporting, and assessment and review under the Convention; •   monitoring and reporting, and assessment and review under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety; and •   monitoring and reporting under the Nagoya Protocol on ABS.WG II addressed: •    sustainable wildlife management; •    conservation and sustainable use of pollinators; •    Article 8(j) (traditional knowledge); •    biodiversity and climate change. •    enhancing integration under the Convention and its Protocols with respect to provisions related to ABS, biosafety, and Article 8(j); •    the second work programme of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES); •   spatial planning, protected areas, and other effective area-based conservation measures; and •   marine and coastal biodiversity.In the afternoon and evening, plenary held an interactive dialogue on approaches to living in harmony with nature; and addressed preparations for the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.A contact group on socio-economic considerations under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety met in the evening.For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily reports, daily web coverage, and a summary and analysis from the 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference. Photos by IISD/ENB | Franz Dejon For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page Hayo Haanstra (the Netherlands), Chair of Working Group I Kata Koppel, CBD Secretariat Manoela Pessoa de Miranda, CBD Secretariat L-R: David Ainsworth, Kata Koppel and Erie Tamale, CBD Secretariat Norsham Abdul Latip, Malaysia Joseph Masinde, Kenya L-R: Anne Teller and Tone Smith Spash, EU Leslie Melissa Ojeda Cabrera, Guatemala Raja Rymbai, International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB) Lavinia Mbongo, Namibia Daniel Wai-Poi, New Zealand Dubravka Stepic, Croatia Augustin Kone, Côte d'Ivoire Wadzi Mandivenyi, South Africa Sandagdorj Bayarkhuu, Mongolia L-R: Sorin Ivan, Andrei Petica, and Madalin Blidaru, Romania L-R: Alexander Shestakov, CBD Secretariat; Clarissa Nina, (Brazil), Chair of Working Group II; and Sarat Babu Gidda, CBD Secretariat Anne Larigauderie, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services L-R: Roosa Atula and Marjukka Mähönen, Finland Mercy Munyadzwe, Botswana Senka Barudanovic, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mitzi Gurgel Valente da Costa, Brazil Crisanta Marlene Rodriguez, the Philippines L-R: Agung Nugroho and Des Alwi, Indonesia Pedro Ivo Arriegas, Portugal Fiona Cumming, New Zealand Melissa Laverde, Colombia Jean-François Gobeil, Canada Christine von Weizsäcker, ECOROPA Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Ghana Andri Wahyono, Indonesia Nahla Adel Noobi, United Arab Emirates Gwen Sisior, Palau Glenn Litsios, Switzerland Günter Mitlacher, WWF L-R: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 14 President Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Egypt; and Cristiana Paşca Palmer, CBD Executive Secretary David Monacchi, Fragments of Extinction Eco-acoustic analysis of a rain forest Paul Leadley, University of Paris-South Josefa Cariño-Tauli, Global Youth Biodiversity Network Halldor Thorgeirsson, former member of the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Fuwen Wei, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Delegates from Burkina Faso Crisanta Marlene Rodriguez and Tony La Viña, the Philippines, posing with the panda from WWF L-R: Raed Bani Hani, Jordan, with Amr Abdel-Meguid, Khaled Allam Harhash, and Mohamed Aljilani, Egypt Participants from the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity L-R: Amir Soliman, Egypt; Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Ghana; Keiichi Nakazawa, Japan; and Hamdallah Zedan, Egypt Clearing-house Mechanism booth  

Delegates conferring with Iran regarding the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the GEF The second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP2) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury met for a second day on Tuesday, 20 November 2018. Delegates met in plenary and in contact groups, and discussed: technical matters, specifically mercury waste, interim storage, releases and contaminated sites; institutional issues regarding the secretariat; budget and programme of work; effectiveness evaluation; open burning; and financial rules. For more details on the day’s events and to hear what delegates said in the corridors, see our daily Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB). IISD Reporting Services, through its Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB) Meeting Coverage, has provided daily web coverage, daily reports, and a summary and analysis report from COP2. Photos by IISD/ENB | Sean Wu For photo reprint permissions, please follow instructions at our Attribution Regulations for Meeting Photo Usage Page The dais during the morning plenary Reginald Hernaus, the Netherlands Silvija Kalniņš, Latvia Delegates from Luxembourg Delegates from Mexico Karel Blaha, Czech Republic Charles Kanu Ikeah, Nigeria Susanna Tiansuwan, Thailand President of COP2, Marc Chardonnens, Switzerland Michael Bender, Zero Mercury Working Group Fiasosoitamalii Siaosi, Samoa Delegates during plenary The dais in informal discussions Imelda Dossou Etui, UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and Toī Pagnibam Meba, Togo Dhammika Kumari Wijaysinghe, Sri Lanka Helga Schrott, the EU Paul Almodóvar, US Heidar Ali Balouji, Iran Eyad Ibrahim, Syria Michel Tschirren, Switzerland The dais during the afternoon plenary Enrique Moret Hernández, Cuba Vladimir Lenev, Russian Federation Mohamed Elmi Obsieh, Djibouti Francis Kihumba, Kenya Nigeria delegation Franz Perrez, Switzerland, consulting with US and the EU Contact Groups Contact Group on Budget Contact Group on Institutional Issues Contact Group on Technical Issues Including Waste Around the Venue